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Suicide is contagious. All of the attention given to a lost life seems like redemption.

The best read is actually Victorian Suicides. It tracks how people committed suicide in sync with the type of death reported in the daily papers. It is a very interesting read and is congruent with modern studies. I didn't read the one listed in this post, but I have read many others. They were about teens and elders. I focused on those two groups. Elders kill themselves due to isolation, fear of pain and further aging, or with a diagnosis. Teens kill themselves from shame, the intensity of life, simple risk-taking (accidental death), revenge ("I'll show them that I matter!!"), redemption ("They'll be sorry!"), and performance/attention.

[b]In Victorian Suicides, you'll find the story of one policeman who stopped a run of teen girl suicides in his small town by declaring that instead of a funeral, he would place the body, nude, in the town square. Crazy! They stopped. Studies would say he took away the reward of suicide, the veneration and the celebratory aspect.[/b]

I love that 08:57 watched the show with her DD and they ended up framing it as ridiculous and a non-response to the situation. With teens it's most important that you demonstrate the power of CHANGING your life, rather than ending it. Kill that life, not yourself. Kill that thinking, not yourself.
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Wow, that's brilliant. [/quote]

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